Chaotic Laws

February 21, 1985|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

As our nation celebrated Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays we should have remembered what men like these fought and died for. With a belief in a "higher authority," they designed our nation's Constitution, which most reasonable people could adhere to. But when the government becomes the authority of moral judgments, you have chaotic laws destroying the very fabrication this nation was built on. While it is a crime to audibly pray in school, the government permits murdering unborn babies.

To men like Washington and Lincoln, the government was created by the people to serve the public. They never intended the government to control its citizens making religious and educational freedoms criminal. For example, the government was never meant to monopolize education. Private schools are being harassed if they are not licensed by the state. Licensing has nothing to do with the quality of education; it only means state control. In five states compulsory kindergarten has become the law, while other educators and politicians endorse formal schooling to begin as young as age 3.

Should the civil government have final authority over parents in childdevelopment and education? This is not American nor does it make sense for the government to assume superiority over parents in child-rearing.

Our forefathers knew it was vitally important for everyone's freedom to carefully preserve our religious freedoms. Unbelievably, there are thousands of court cases in the U.S. concerning religious liberties.

Americans, do what you can to keep this "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"!